SuperSuper

[2017, performance]

Inspired by the search for the ultimate number and the principles of the resonance of the body in space and of projection into digital space, SuperSuper is a triptych composed of Super8, Super réalité and Super N64. Two performers enact a dizzying gestural composition, redirecting digital code into poetry. Body, sound and image are modeled on and articulated through a tracking system, and the performers’ gestures and movements slowly build a parallel world, an augmented space, a kind of databank. The protagonists work under surveillance that keeps them prisoners of the game in which they are evolving and which eventually culminates in a rereading of Mallarmé’s “Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard.” SuperSuper synthesizes all of Line Nault’s artistic preoccupations, built as it is around systems, coding, generative flow, movement and words – i.e., movement that speaks and words that move – catapulting physical, sound and visual elements into areas where perception is completely transfigured.